‘We shed one in three jobs but are recruiting again’

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At his JFC garage in Maidenhead, Ricky Woodley said that the nation had been
forced to cut its cloth to survive the recession.

“Five years ago there was a lot of panic,” the 53-year-old said. “But people
have adjusted to a new way of living with lower standards.”

In Maidenhead’s Marlow Road, which was chosen
by The Times five years ago as a barometer of how the nation was
responding to the worst recession in years, Mr Woodley said that there was
now stability as people adjusted to what they could afford.